A ground-based sense-and-avoid system being prototyped by the U.S. Army would have prevented the mid-air collision of a C-130 Hercules airlifter with RQ-7 Shadow unmanned aircraft at a forward operation base in eastern Afghanistan on August 15, a service official says.
Category Archives: Accident Reporting
C-130 Cargo Plane Hits RQ-7 Shadow in Afghanistan
US Air Force Captain Justin Brockhoff, a spokesman for the military in Afghanistan, confirmed that a C-130 cargo plane was forced to make an emergency landing Monday at a forward operating base in eastern Afghanistan after colliding with an RQ-7 Shadow, an unmanned aircraft that is usually operated by the Army and the Marine Corps.
Falcon Hypersonic Aircraft Test Flight Fails
Engineers and scientists monitoring the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2, which was designed to fly at 20 times the speed of sound, lost contact with the vehicle midway through a scheduled 30-minute flight from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Fire Scout Was Downed by Gadhafi’s Forces
A US Navy unmanned aircraft that disappeared along the coast in central Libya in June was probably shot down by Colonel Gadhafi’s forces, a U.S. military investigation has concluded.
Lockheed Martin Unmanned Airship Down on Test Flight
An unmanned, remote controlled airship, launched from Akron, Ohio, crash landed Wednesday morning, just outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
American UAS Shot Down Over Nuclear Site in Iran
The Iranian Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) claims to have shot down an American unmanned aircraft over the nuclear enrichment site of Fordo near the city of Qom.
Pakistan Navy UAV Crashes Near Refinery after Bird Strike
A Pakistani Navy unmanned aircraft crashed near an oil refinery, after hitting a bird in the country’s largest city of Karachi on Tuesday.
ISAF Unmanned Aircraft Crash in Afghanistan
An International Security Assistance Force remotely piloted aircraft crashed in eastern Afghanistan yesterday.